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TV Spies: Amazon’s Wacky CIA Drug War Conspiracy Flick Draws Qanon Raves

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TV Spies: Amazon’s Wacky CIA Drug War Conspiracy Flick Draws Qanon Raves

'The Last Narc' docudrama peddles a conspiracy theory that the CIA had a hand in the murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena.

Elaine Shannon
Sep 28, 2020
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TV Spies: Amazon’s Wacky CIA Drug War Conspiracy Flick Draws Qanon Raves

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Does the world need another Deep State conspiracy theory?  

Amazon Studios obviously thinks so. 

In these grim times, with tens of millions of Americans frightened, angry and ready to believe the worst about their government and each other, Amazon Studios and Amazon Prime have inexplicably chosen to stream a disturbing pseudo-documentary that falsely claims that the CIA and the DEA conspired with Mexican drug kingpins to torture and murder a brave American.

The Last Narc, produced by Texas filmmaker Tiller Russell, is a cynical reimagining of the 1985 death of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, who was dragged into a car outside the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara on February 7, 1985. DEA and FBI agents assigned to Operation Leyenda, as DEA called the murder investigation, plunged deep into Mexico. They didn’t find every fact, but they got enough of them to be sure that the horrendous crime was orchestrated by Guadalajara cartel kingpins and corrupt Mexican officials at all levels.

As a cor…

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